Pressing and turning device



p 20, 1955 A. AERY 2,718,078

PRESSING AND TURNING DEVICE Filed 06".- 26, 1953 IN V EN TOR.

By .0 WW ZW' United States Patent PRESSING AND TURNING DEVICE Alma Aery, Marblehead, Mass.

Application October 26, 1953, Serial No. 388,107

2 Claims. (Cl. 38-141) This invention comprises a new and improved device for use in dressmaking for turning and shaping stitched pockets, lapels, collars and the like, and supporting the seams thereof in convenient position for separating with suflicient stiffness for ironing pressure.

In making such articles it is very desirable to insure that the finished contour shall correspond accurately with the stitch-line of the seam. For example, in the point of a collar or label, the material must be turned fully up to the stitch-line, and in the curved corner of a pocket the contour of the seam must appear in the turned article. When the turning operation has been effected the free marginal edges beyond the seam must be separated and flattened and it is extremely important that the flattening step should be effected without having the outline of the underlying margins show through the finished surface of the cloth.

The device of my invention may be used with advantage in carrying out all the steps above discussed conveniently, rapidly, and with greater assurance of accuracy than has been realized heretofore.

In a preferred embodiment the device may comprise a thin sheet metal body presenting a circular section or segment and a pointed acuate section merging in flush relation and having an upstanding rim extending continuously about the Whole perimeter of the body presenting in itself an acute angle and having suflicient stiifness to withstand ironing pressure upon a seam supported and separated thereon.

These and other features of the invention will be best understood and appreciated from the following description of a preferred embodiment thereof, selected for purposes of illustration and shown in the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a view in perspective of the device shown at approximately full size,

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the device in operative position within a stitched pocket,

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the device in operative position in a lapel having a right angle corner, and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view illustrating a point of modified shape.

The illustrated device may be constructed of a single sheet of aluminum or other light metal having a thickness in the order of 0.040, cut and formed to the desired shape. The body as shown in Fig. 1 has a semi-circular section or segment merging into an acuate or acute angled section 11. The marginal portion of both sections is turned up in the form of a continuous rim or upstanding flange 12 which in itself forms an acute angle 13 and is of the same thickness as that of the body of the device.

The curved and straight portions of the rim merge smoothly in tangential relation, and the rim is shown as flush 2,718,078 Patented Sept. 20, 1955 ice with the lower face of the body as shown in Fig. 1. The rim is supported and stiflfened by its characteristic shape, that is to say, by the curved and pointed portions thereof, and while the device as a whole is light and easily handled, the structure of the rim is sufficiently stiff to withstand ironing pressure.

In Fig. 2 is shown a pocket formed of overlapping plies 14 of cloth united by a stitch-line 15 having a curved portion. The pressing and turning device is represented as inserted between the plies of the pocket with the cor responding portion of the rim 12 brought into position against the stitch-line 15 and with the free marginal portions 16 of the seam separated and turned outwardly in symmetrical relation upon the upper portion of the rim 12. With the pocket so positioned the margin 16 may be flattened and pressed in a position at right angles to the body of the pocket 14. After the pressing operation has been completed, the pocket is turned right side out whereupon the free margins 16 become concealed but without having their impression imparted in any Way to the exposed portion of the pocket.

In Fig. 3 the device is shown as partially inserted in a lapel 17 with its acute angle 13 against a right angle formed in the seam 18. The free margins 19 of the seam are shown as separated and flattened against the rim 12 of the device. When the pressing operation has been completed and the lapel turned right side out, the pointed portion may be used to assist and complete the turning operation.

It will be noted from Fig. 4 that the rim 12 is reduced in height at its vertex so that the point of the device is formed by convergence or taper in two directions. This is desirable in order that the point may be fully inserted into seams forming very acute angles.

While I prefer to form the device of my invention of sheet metal it would be within the scope of the invention to employ plastic material or to fashion it of uniform thickness from solid stock of light metal.

Having thus disclosed my invention and described in detail an illustrative embodiment thereof, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A pressing and turning device comprising a thin sheet metal body presenting a flat circular section and a pointed, acute angle section merging in flush relation, and an upstanding rim extending continuously at right angles about the whole perimeter of said body and being of the same thickness as the body, presenting an acuate angle in itself and having suflicient stiffness to withstand ironing pressure upon a seam supported and separated thereon.

2. A pressing and turning device for use in dressmaking comprising a body of sheet aluminum presenting a flat circular segment and a pointed section merging in flush relation therein, and an upstanding rim bent upwardly from the marginal edge of the body and integral therewith, said rim being flush with one face of the body, disposed at right angles thereto and presenting in itself a circular segment and an acuate portion and having sufficient stiffness to withstand ironing pressure upon a seam supported thereon.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 648,917 Bradley May 8, 1900 1,765,961 Anthony June 24, 1930 2,323,162 Talmage June 29, 1943 2,504,676 Franklin Apr. 18, 1950 

